OSMcast! & The Carbuncle Chronicle

Hello Adventurers! The next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Dawntrail, is arriving next year but this past October during the 2023 London FanFest we got yet more details about it. And perhaps the biggest news (that’s not the new Viper job) was the announcement of the next alliance raid series being in collaboration with Final Fantasy XI. You know, the other Final Fantasy MMO! We need a FFXI expert. S...

Hello Adventures! With the advent of Dawntrail (the new expansion) on the horizon, and the current post patch cycle winding down, we thought it would be a nice time to talk about one of the new things Endwalker (the current expansion) introduced into Final Fantasy XIV: The Variant and the Criterion Dungeons. These are brand new types of battle-style content that kind does their own thing, and they...

So sometimes things are an OSMcast!, and sometimes they are an OSMcast? Where one is unqualified awesome, and everyone should watch it. The other, maybe not so much but we wanted to talk about it anyway. And sometimes, we’ll start thinking it was an OSMcast? and it turns that no… This is an OSMcast! only it just has a lot of super mega dope ass violence. And that’s Genocyber, a 1994 anime OAV seri...

Why hello there! You may be wondering, “Are they ever going to release a normal standard plain good ol’ fashioned OSMcast! episode?” Well today is your day!! That’s right, we are here to talk about anime, tv shows, games maybe? But mostly about the first season of Satelight’s Symphogear! It’s a cool anime for cool people about punching weird alien blobs real hard, but also with the power of song....

So previously we Aimed for the Top with interviewing the voice of Noriko , but this time we are interviewing the voice of Kazumi Amano in Gunbuster: Melissa Sternenberg! Where she outs herself as a huge nerd. Which is good, because this is kind of the podcast for that sort of thing. We chat about LARPing, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, 90s anime, all sorts of things. Like, what makes a great dub? Also, a...

Hello Adventurers! So in our previous episode we talked about the big announcement from the 2023 NA FFXIV FanFest in Las Vegas: The latest FFXIV expansion, Dawntrail. But this episode is about everything else that happened at FanFest! The highs, the lows, the events, the lines. All the fun parts, and some of the not so fun parts. The terrible, terrible heat. Speaking of things that are hot off the...

Hello Adventurers! Everyone it’s been 10 long years, but we have finally done it. We’re going to The New World, Tural! And while a few of us did just get back from the 2023 NA FanFest in Las Vegas a couple of weeks back, even now only the thoughts of new level caps, two dyes, and taco cats arw what keep us going. And, or some of us, the thoughts of wearing glasses and a summoner’s horn at the same...

Hello Adventurers! Saddle up your chocobos folks, because we are heading to Las Vegas! Some of us figuratively, some of us literally. This upcoming weekend (July 28 & 29th, 2023) is the first of the set of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festivals. Which means fun is to be had, Keynotes and Live Letters to watch, and a new expansion to be announced! So, Basil, Anna, and special guest Tobias from Thi...

There are times when getting these interviews from John can be kinda wild. For example, just the other day he messages me, and the message went something like this: “Hey, I just interviewed the voice of Minnie Mouse.” Which is not something one normally hears! But today you get to listen to that interview. Which is with the wonderful Kaitlyn Robrock. Who is the current voice of Minnie Mouse from w...

I dunno if you have heard, but there is a brand-new Blu-ray release of Gunbuster from Discotek . It’s out there! It’s great! And one of the great things about it, is that it features an excellent all new English dub. And the lead Noriko was portrayed as Kiane Chula King. Who, coincidentally, is also the subject of this OSMinterview! While Noriko may be one of her first big roles, it was really nic...

So this is something new! Your friend and mine, John Robbins normally does a lot of our OSMinterviews. But this time, he got to instead moderate a Question-and-Answer panel for Amanda Miller at this year’s MTAC Blackjack . This is the audio from that panel. And chances are, you have heard the voice of Amanda Miller before! Some of her most well-known roles include Sailor Jupiter, in the Viz Media...

The real Easter Miracle that was performed at MTAC this year was that we were able to land a last-minute chance to chat with Marin M. Miller! We’ve had them on the show a few times, but it’s always good to catch up. They have only grown yet even more prestigious since those bygone days, for example now being the voice of Nimbus in Destiny 2: Lightfall! That said, this interview is more than about...

So, like all good weebs, we spent this past Easter celebrating by going to an anime con. MTAC Blackjack, specifically. And while we were there, we got the chance to chat with some cool voice over artists! This episode is a chat we got to have with one Kyle McCarley . He's probably best known for his roles like being Mob in Mob Psycho 100, 9S in Nier: Automata, Alm in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of...

Oh hello there! Our boy John is back with yet another OSMinterview, this time with the excellent Mark Hildreth. Mark has been acting, both voice acting as well as theatre and forms of live action acting, since the age of 10! His career is incredibly prolific, but you may know him best from such roles as Heero Yuy from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Terry Bogard from the various Fatal Fury anime producti...

So this past February, your friend and mine John Robbins got to chance to chat with the voice actor, ADR director, all around great person that is Marrisa Lenti. As a voice actor, Marrisa Lenti has portrayed such roles as Libra in Fairy Tale, Moze in Borderlands 3, Sister Jill in both Cutie Honey Universe and Re: Cutie Honey, among others. She's also an ADR director for Sound Cadence Studios, wher...

Hello Adventurers! As the new year rolls on, so too does the critically acclaimed Final Fantasy XIV Online patch cycle. In fact, we are in the midst of Patch 6.3 hyjinks right now! And not only did we get a new 24-person raid, a new dungeon with MSQ alongside, but we also got a bevy of great Quality-of-Life improvements as well. To help us walk through all this 6.3 Patch stuff is our special guest...

Hello Adventurers! As we leave the Year of Our Yoshi-p 2022 and enter into 2023, now is the perfect time to dig into some seasonal events! Final Fantasy XIV is packed with them throughout the year, and we are chatting about them all. Yes, even Hatching-tide! From Heavensturn to Starlight Celebration we talk about the basics, when they usually are, where the quests start, some of the backstory behi...

Hello Adventurers! We’ve got a whole new Issue for you that’s cram packed with things we’ve been up for the past few months, the latest patch content from the 6.2x series: Buried Memory! Not only that, but we are joined by our special guest Andrew from the Third Impact Anime podcast . And don’t worry folks, we asked him all the hard-hitting questions. Things like… What are we looking forward to th...

You know the saying, "Anything can happen on Halloween?" And sure, they may follow that up with things like, "Your dog can turn into a cat!" Or maybe, "There may be a toad in your bass guitar, or your sister could turn into a bat!" But have you considered the possibility of perhaps instead on Halloween... "You are the ancient strategist Kongming whom has died in...

Huh! So, this was supposed to have released for Patrons over at our Patreon when the Carbuncle Chronicle came out. But uh... Basil didn't realize he had the audio. Then, a bunch of us got covid, and then Anna had to have surgery! And while she is doing great now, recovering from surgery took much longer than anticipated. So now that everything has settled down and we can get out the episode we had...

  Hello Adventurers! Well, it's been a while since we've done one of these. In fact, we already have had the expansion come out that we were getting hyped for in our last episode ! You know... back in... February of 2021. Ahem. So anyroad Endwalker has released, and it's been what, eight months since then? Excellent time to release an episode all about Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker right now! Just i...

So, it's not often that Basil gets to con other OSMcasters into a sports anime. Usually he watches them alone in the lofty mountains like a hermit, waiting upon the call from Kory to descend upon the Earth for an episode of the Taiiku podcast. However, this time it is different. This time... he has acquired not only Kevin, but also Douglass for this most righteous of causes. This time, it is time...

Hello and welcome a preview to a whole new era of the OSMcast! We've had Patreon going on for a while now, and we appreciate everyone who has pitched in! So now it's time to kick it up a notch. Now whenever we record an episode of the OSMcast, we are going to start saving the immediate bits when we start recording and release those as bonuses for our $5 and up patreons. But we aren't going to just...

It began as an April Fool's joke. On October 15th however, Culver's decided to make their joke a reality. That day? October 15th, 2021: National Cheese Curd Day. The joke? The CurderBurger: a Deluxe ButterBurger® topped with a crown of golden fried cheese. Made up of a blend of yellow and white cheddar Cheese Curds all surrounded by crispy seasoned breadcrumbs, the cheese crown offers a warm, butt...

We may be done with MTAC interviews, but at the end of May John gave us the most wonderful surprise. He had the chance to get to chat with Natalie Van Sistine! And let's be honest. We are all watching Spy x Family. It's great. You know it, and we know it. Whether it's in manga form, and now anime form, it rules. The voice cast on either side of the globe are also stellar! And who happens to be the...